I have a Dataframe, df, with the following column:
df['ArrivalDate'] =
...
936 2012-12-31
938 2012-12-29
965 2012-12-31
966 2012-12-31
967 2012-12-31
968 2012-12-31
969 2012-12-31
970 2012-12-29
971 2012-12-31
972 2012-12-29
973 2012-12-29
...
The elements of the column are pandas.tslib.Timestamp.
I want to just include the year and month. I thought there would be simple way to do it, but I can't figure it out.
Here's what I've tried:
df['ArrivalDate'].resample('M', how = 'mean')
I got the following error:
Only valid with DatetimeIndex or PeriodIndex
Then I tried:
df['ArrivalDate'].apply(lambda(x):x[:-2])
I got the following error:
'Timestamp' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
Any suggestions?
Edit: I sort of figured it out.
df.index = df['ArrivalDate']
Then, I can resample another column using the index.
But I'd still like a method for reconfiguring the entire column. Any ideas?
There is two steps to extract year for all the dataframe without using method apply.
Step1
convert the column to datetime :
df['ArrivalDate']=pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate'], format='%Y-%m-%d')
Step2
extract the year or the month using DatetimeIndex() method
pd.DatetimeIndex(df['ArrivalDate']).year
@KieranPC's solution is the correct approach for Pandas, but is not easily extendible for arbitrary attributes. For this, you can use getattr within a generator comprehension and combine using pd.concat:
# input data
list_of_dates = ['2012-12-31', '2012-12-29', '2012-12-30']
df = pd.DataFrame({'ArrivalDate': pd.to_datetime(list_of_dates)})
# define list of attributes required
L = ['year', 'month', 'day', 'dayofweek', 'dayofyear', 'weekofyear', 'quarter']
# define generator expression of series, one for each attribute
date_gen = (getattr(df['ArrivalDate'].dt, i).rename(i) for i in L)
# concatenate results and join to original dataframe
df = df.join(pd.concat(date_gen, axis=1))
print(df)
ArrivalDate year month day dayofweek dayofyear weekofyear quarter
0 2012-12-31 2012 12 31 0 366 1 4
1 2012-12-29 2012 12 29 5 364 52 4
2 2012-12-30 2012 12 30 6 365 52 4
SINGLE LINE: Adding a column with 'year-month'-paires: ('pd.to_datetime' first changes the column dtype to date-time before the operation)
df['yyyy-mm'] = pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate']).dt.strftime('%Y-%m')?
Accordingly for an extra 'year' or 'month' column:
df['yyyy'] = pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate']).dt.strftime('%Y')?
df['mm'] = pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate']).dt.strftime('%m')?
If you want the month year unique pair, using apply is pretty sleek.
df['mnth_yr'] = df['date_column'].apply(lambda x: x.strftime('%B-%Y'))
Outputs month-year in one column.
Don't forget to first change the format to date-time before, I generally forget.
df['date_column'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date_column'])
You can directly access the year and month attributes, or request a datetime.datetime:
In [15]: t = pandas.tslib.Timestamp.now()
In [16]: t
Out[16]: Timestamp('2014-08-05 14:49:39.643701', tz=None)
In [17]: t.to_pydatetime() #datetime method is deprecated
Out[17]: datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 5, 14, 49, 39, 643701)
In [18]: t.day
Out[18]: 5
In [19]: t.month
Out[19]: 8
In [20]: t.year
Out[20]: 2014
One way to combine year and month is to make an integer encoding them, such as: 201408 for August, 2014. Along a whole column, you could do this as:
df['YearMonth'] = df['ArrivalDate'].map(lambda x: 100*x.year + x.month)
or many variants thereof.
I'm not a big fan of doing this, though, since it makes date alignment and arithmetic painful later and especially painful for others who come upon your code or data without this same convention. A better way is to choose a day-of-month convention, such as final non-US-holiday weekday, or first day, etc., and leave the data in a date/time format with the chosen date convention.
The calendar module is useful for obtaining the number value of certain days such as the final weekday. Then you could do something like:
import calendar
import datetime
df['AdjustedDateToEndOfMonth'] = df['ArrivalDate'].map(
lambda x: datetime.datetime(
x.year,
x.month,
max(calendar.monthcalendar(x.year, x.month)[-1][:5])
)
)
If you happen to be looking for a way to solve the simpler problem of just formatting the datetime column into some stringified representation, for that you can just make use of the strftime function from the datetime.datetime class, like this:
In [5]: df
Out[5]:
date_time
0 2014-10-17 22:00:03
In [6]: df.date_time
Out[6]:
0 2014-10-17 22:00:03
Name: date_time, dtype: datetime64[ns]
In [7]: df.date_time.map(lambda x: x.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))
Out[7]:
0 2014-10-17
Name: date_time, dtype: object
df['year_month']=df.datetime_column.apply(lambda x: str(x)[:7])
This worked fine for me, didn't think pandas would interpret the resultant string date as date, but when i did the plot, it knew very well my agenda and the string year_month where ordered properly... gotta love pandas!
Thanks to jaknap32, I wanted to aggregate the results according to Year and Month, so this worked:
df_join['YearMonth'] = df_join['timestamp'].apply(lambda x:x.strftime('%Y%m'))
Output was neat:
0 201108
1 201108
2 201108
Extracting the Year say from ['2018-03-04']
df['Year'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['date']).year
The df['Year'] creates a new column. While if you want to extract the month just use .month
Best way found!!
the df['date_column'] has to be in date time format.
df['month_year'] = df['date_column'].dt.to_period('M')
You could also use D for Day, 2M for 2 Months etc. for different sampling intervals, and in case one has time series data with time stamp, we can go for granular sampling intervals such as 45Min for 45 min, 15Min for 15 min sampling etc.
You can first convert your date strings with pandas.to_datetime, which gives you access to all of the numpy datetime and timedelta facilities. For example:
df['ArrivalDate'] = pandas.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate'])
df['Month'] = df['ArrivalDate'].values.astype('datetime64[M]')
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